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Densely tufted mat-forming perennial herb, main stems diffuse, prostrate, nude, rooting, producing innumerable erect closely leafy branchlets up to ±20 mm high. Leaves up to ±7 x 2 mm, closely imbricate, appearing rosulate from above, linear to narrowly lanceolate, with smooth sericeous 'tissue-paper' indumentum, green with a silvery sheen, drying silvery grey. Heads homogamous or rarely heterogamous, campanulate, ±10 mm long, nearly double that across the fully radiating bracts, sessile, solitary at the tips of the branches. Involucral bracts in ±7 series, graded, closely imbricate, outer pellucid, palest brown, inner much exceeding the flowers, white, or tinged or tipped rose-pink, opaque. Receptacle smooth. Flowers 18-24, rarely 1-4 female. Achenes 1.5 mm long, ellipsoid, obscurely ribbed, glabrous or occasionally with a few duplex hairs. Pappus bristles many, equalling corolla, scabrid, bases fused in a smooth ring.
